The Onion Papers

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#14: cenci

belated carnival celebrations, between Florence and Glasgow

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Margaux Vialleron
Feb 19, 2024
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My partner came home and said: ‘I think I’m a bit homesick.’ Ludo never says that he misses Florence, not as much as I do at least, so we had to take him seriously and, naturally, we headed to the kitchen. We made a minestrone, the same soup we eat weekly, but that wasn’t enough. Reciprocity meant that I had become homesick too, and we didn’t want to ea…

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